St. George service businesses struggle to fill jobs as employees can't find rentals

Two months after accepting a job as a line cook at a St. George restaurant, Sean McAllister is still struggling to find an affordable place to live and is beginning to lose hope. That means McAllister, who lives with an aunt in Mesquite, must make the 78-mile round trip to work and back through the Virgin River Gorge each day except, on occasion, when he can sleep on the couch at his girlfriend’s downtown St. George apartment.

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